Severn Vale Community Kitchen has been set up by Dursley based Big Event Catering Ltd as a not for profit organisation to keep those in need fed during this ongoing crisis.

In conjunction with GL11 and other local agencies we are
offering wholesome, freshly made meals from our 5-star hygiene rated kitchen,
delivered to your door in recyclable containers.

Dishes to include:

• Shepherd’s Pie 
• Sausage & Mash 
• Beef Stew 
• Pork in Cider Sauce 
• Hot Pot 
• Lasagne 
• Meatballs in Tomato Sauce 
• Fish Pie 
• Butternut Squash Wellington

All meals include vegetables or salad 

£5.00 for a single meal, 4 for meals £15.00 or 7 meals for
£25.00

Also available:

• Sticky Toffee Pudding
• Ginger Sponge and Custard
• Chocolate Fudge Brownie 

£3 for a single portion, 4 for £9, or 7 portions for £15 

How to order:

Email food@bigeventcatering.co.uk or call 01453 708338 and let us know the following details

1. Which and how many meals you would like to order
2. If you have any dietary requirements
3. Your delivery address – we will get back to you with delivery times etc

We can take payment by card (exc Amex) or online transfer

The Stinchcombe Together Leaflet

Dear neighbour, we are so happy to have you as part of our community. You may need help over the coming months. We are here for you. If you need assistance with purchasing essential items, picking up post, papers or medication or dog walking here is how you can get in touch with your community of helpers:

Email: stinchcombeparish@gmail.com

Alternatively, here are your point of contacts at the end of a line:

The Street:

• Beth Taylor: 07894 209611
• Naomi Hemming: 07904 249019

Wick Lane/Wick Road:

• Stephen Ponting: 07929 623540
• Caroline Marshall: 07970 808023

Taits Hill:

• Tracey Legg: 07790 389467

Clingre Down:

• Mandy Delafield: 07715 523637

If you would like to be added to the list of volunteer helpers, email us with your mobile number and we’ll add you to the WhatsApp group.

We’re in this together

(You can download the full leaflet from the “Documents” section of the website and a real copy will be distributed throughout the village.)

I cycled down this morning to Tesco to be greeted with this empty shelves.

Unbelievable!

I just can’t understand the crowd mentality that we have. The shelves have been and are being refilled every night, yet they are being cleared each day. There is plenty of food in the system, the supermarkets are adding extra deliveries and staff, yet people have this hoarding instinct.

However, we have much more important things to talk about.

First, keeping your infection probability down in the next three months.

We can all take steps to lower your risk of getting infected in the first place:

• As much as possible, limit contact with people outside your family.
• Maintain enough distance (six feet or more) between yourself and anyone outside your family.
• As soon as you enter your house, WASH YOUR HANDS. Put a notice up to that effect
• Wash your hands often with soap and warm water for 20 to 30 seconds.
• As best you can, avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.
• Clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces in your home, such as counters, tabletops, doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, toilets, phones, keyboards, tablets, and bedside tables, every day.

Help for those in Isolation.

We are so lucky in Stinchcombe, neighbours and friends are happy to try and help. No-one should feel isolated with no-one to turn to. As a community we can help ourselves and others by offering to collect shopping and prescriptions etc.

A group has been formed in the village who are only too willing and in the next few days some more details might come through your door.

Local business’s like Cam Family Butchers Tel 544415 info@camfamilybutchers.co.uk and now Cam Catering Butchers Tel 01453 890254 will take orders which can be collected. Also, Leaf & Group Tel 393007 will I am sure be offering a pickup service for those in self isolation.

Supermarkets are now giving or going to priority to those over 70 for online shopping.

Also, the first hour of each day will be given over to “the elderly and vulnerable customers”

Also there are wider plans evolving from other larger groups in the Dursley area who are combing their efforts. This effort is still in the planning stage so I have little detail at present

So much, at present is unknown.

We just don’t know how things will unfold in the next few months and uncertainty in the future makes us worry. So try and manage your stress, keep busy, talk with friends, listen to music, exercise and laugh.

Richard

Dear Friends

These are uncertain times, but in faith and each other, we have hope.

In a joint letter to clergy today (March 17th), Archbishops Justin Welby and John Sentamu said it was now necessary to put public services on hold until further notice.

But they said that far from having to, “shut up shop”, the Church of England must face the challenge by becoming a radically different kind of church rooted in prayer and serving others.

So at St George’s and St Cyr’s there will be no public gatherings for worship on Sundays or at the Thursday Lent meetings until further notice. Watch this space! However the church will remain open and a place for personal prayer and reflection.

We are looking at different ways of communicating with you via video and even live streaming. Please check emails/ enews regularly to find out more and keep up to date with an ever changing situation….but not too often.

It is even more important that we are Jesus’ hands and feet in serving our wider community for those who can and please do not underestimate the power of a phone call or even FaceTime / Skype / Google Hangouts / WhatsApp Video / Facebook Live, etc. If you need help setting up a tablet / smartphone or laptop please let us know. And do find the St George’s Facebook Page where there will be videos including daily Morning Prayer…..if you are the praying sort we have certainly been given the space to do lots of it and it is such a positive act to do for our nation at this time.

If you need any help, a chat, reassurance, a doggy walk, mail/medicine collected, some shopping done or anything else, please do not hesitate to contact Fiona on 07817 021196 or 01453 548343, who is happy to co-ordinate it. I know in Stinchcombe you will look out for each other. Do stay in touch with Fiona and each other.

Rev’d Fiona Crocker
Vicar of Cam with Stinchcombe

Apparently there is a large run on buying guns, especially hand guns in USA…I think Tesco must have already run out!

Seriously, let’s keep that American obsession that side of the Atlantic.

If today’s figures for UK infections of up 407 (which should have been released at 9.00am) prove to be right, it is extremely worrying as it means the Government has completely lost control of the spread of the virus. The growth rate of new infections is now at least 1.36 far exceeding Italy’s current growth rate of 1.24.

I hope I am wrong but even today I watched MP’s crowding around each other in the House of Commons. Do they not get it? Have they not heard of “Social Distancing”

PLEASE, Washing hands and social distancing are the two single most effective ways to stop the virus spreading.